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£1,000 fine for using wrong bin: Families face new crackdown over household waste
Daily Mail (UK) ^
| 18th March 2010
| David Derbyshire
Posted on 03/17/2010 11:48:20 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Householders could be fined up to £1,000 if they fail to comply with complex new rules on refuse sorting.
Food scraps, tea bags and vegetable peelings thrown into the wrong dustbin could land them with hefty penalties under government plans to be unveiled today.
Families could end up with five different bins and receptacles - including compulsory slop buckets for food waste - and be forced to sift through rubbish for anything that can be recycled, reused or converted into electricity.
The proposals are the brainchild of environment secretary Hilary Benn
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 1984; benn; bigbrother; environment; environmentalists; government; governmentcontrol; hilarybenn; leftwingnuts
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To: Mount Athos
Clearly, Liberals run the U.K.
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posted on
03/17/2010 11:49:34 PM PDT
by
OldArmy52
(Christmas 2009: Democrats give us Obama Cr*pCare, the t*rd that keeps on stinking.)
To: Mount Athos
The proposals are the brainchild of environment secretary Hilary Benn Fire her ass and throw her in a bin.
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posted on
03/17/2010 11:53:51 PM PDT
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: All
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posted on
03/17/2010 11:57:12 PM PDT
by
Irenic
To: paul51
Watch out here comes the Green Police!.....Audi was dead on....Coming soon to the USA if Obama and his liberal whackjob friends get their way.....
To: Mount Athos
I separate my refuse the following way: cardboard, used motor oil, everything else.
Cardboard goes in 55 gal drum, pour in some motor oil, light it. Then everything else goes in.
Its simple, easy to do, and decreases my carbon foot-print by reducing the number of runs to the landfill.
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posted on
03/18/2010 12:00:21 AM PDT
by
proud_yank
(Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
To: proud_yank
I’m going outside and light a stack of old tires on fire to celebrate this news./s
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posted on
03/18/2010 12:02:26 AM PDT
by
Mister Muggles
(.Seattle: A city full of Liberal men with vaginas.)
To: Mister Muggles
LOL That’s the spirit!!
That’s also a good Earth Day/Lenin Birthday festivity too.
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posted on
03/18/2010 12:07:18 AM PDT
by
proud_yank
(Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
To: Mount Athos
Deplorable Healthcare, Big Brother everywhere and now this.
Living in the UK must almost seem like Prison to most...
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posted on
03/18/2010 12:10:53 AM PDT
by
lmr
(God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
To: Mount Athos
Hey you Brits, I think its time to fertilize the Tree of Liberty.
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posted on
03/18/2010 12:12:33 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
To: paul51
Hillary Benn, the estranged daughter of Benny Hill?
To: paul51
Gee, Great Britain has Hilary problems too?
To: Mount Athos
This is what happens when government has too much control over people, they even control how you throw out your trash.
To: Mount Athos
Time to introduce a new holiday tradition of hanging Greens on city lamp posts.
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posted on
03/18/2010 12:30:11 AM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: Mount Athos
This bring a new meaning to Euro-trash; now the populace has to compete with real garbage to get along socially.
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posted on
03/18/2010 12:39:42 AM PDT
by
ntmxx
(I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
To: Mount Athos
Hmmm? If you have a grudge against your neighbor, you could cause him all kinds of grief by putting the wrong items into his waste bins?
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posted on
03/18/2010 1:20:36 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: Mount Athos
My suburb of Chicago has a compliance officer fondly referred to as the "Sign Nazi", who is in charge of making sure storefront signs and commercial garbage storage locations are in compliance the village codes, so I could easily picture her going through garbage containers to ensure private citizen compliance.
Maybe the next step would be to require every resident to stand at attention at the curb while the Garbage Nazi reviews the containers.
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posted on
03/18/2010 1:29:39 AM PDT
by
Bernard
(One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Three if by Government)
To: Mount Athos; All
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posted on
03/18/2010 2:08:41 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
To: gleeaikin
Gee, Great Britain has Hilary problems too?
It’s a Hilary infestation.
You know, named after the guy who climbed Mt. Everest!
To: SmartInsight
This is what happens when government has too much control over people, they even control how you throw out your trash.
It isn't government. It is 85% of your neighbors who will see to it that you follow the guidelines "for the good of the planet."
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posted on
03/18/2010 2:43:44 AM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(IN A SMALL TENT WE JUST STAND CLOSER! * IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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